Sorry, sometimes politics must trump all, especially when our kids’ needs are at stake. I don’t usually do this, but it is my blog, after all! I urge you all to vote for Barack Obama for President. If for nothing else, think of what he intends to do for the disabled. This came my way and I was just so excited to see it that I have to post it! All emphasized bits were done by me, including the “yay”s. <\/p>\n
As President, Barack will begin by creating a new White House post: It’s easy for me to say that my friend Barack will do these things, but That sounds like a good use of tax dollars to me. Where else might the money come from? Oh yeah, I hear Obama will end the war, which apparently costs us billions per month… so maybe we actually would not even need much of a tax increase!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry, sometimes politics must trump all, especially when our kids’ needs are at stake. I don’t usually do this, but it is my blog, after all! I urge you all to vote for Barack Obama for President. If for nothing else, think of what he intends to do for the disabled. This came my way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-5W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Assistant to the President for Disability Policy. He will press
Congress to pass the CLASS Act and the Community Choice Act to help<\/span>
Americans with disabilities to choose to live independently in the<\/span>
community and to help them pay for the direct care workers, assistive<\/span>
technology and other tools that make independent, community-based living<\/span>
possible. (YAY!!!!) <\/span> For our children, Barack will continue his fight for full
funding of IDEA so that students with disabilities are assured of a free
appropriate public education. Barack agrees that funding IDEA at less<\/span>
than half its authorized level is a disgrace, but he also understands<\/span>
that merely wringing more money out of Congress is not enough. His<\/span>
Secretary of Education will fully implement and enforce IDEA. Local<\/span>
school districts’ foot-dragging and resistance to IDEA, denying teachers<\/span>
what they need to serve kids with disabilities in the most inclusive<\/span>
possible setting, will no longer be tolerated. (YAY!!!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
this isn’t just friendship talking. I know he will do the right thing,
for two reasons. First, there is his record: As an Illinois state
senator Barack Obama sponsored legislation that created an autism
spectrum diagnosis program, designed to implement evidence-based best
practices. Barack worked with Illinois families to build the Easter
Seals academic programs that prepare students for independent living.
Moreover, Barack helped pass Illinois’ mental health parity law as a
State Senator. Barack understands that we need universal screening,
education and early intervention strategies for all children, but
especially children with disabilities. That’s why he intends to provide
$10 billion per year in funding for developmental programs serving
children between birth and age five. Barack has long supported the
Family and Medical Leave Act; as President, he will expand it and help
the states create paid leave systems to ease the tough choices that are
faced every day by working families providing support to a disabled
member.<\/p>\n